- Theme city map Chemnitz
- Theme city map Dresden
- City map Dresden
- Old Dresden - House by House
- Theme city map Leipzig
- Leipzig Museum of City History
- Sorbian map of Lusatia
- Geoportal Saxony Atlas
- State Enterprise for Geographic Information and Surveying Saxony (GeoSN)
- Institute for Cartography Dresden
- Leibniz Institute for Ecological Spatial Development (IÖR)
- University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Geoinformation []
- Dresden State Art Collections (SKD)
- Georelief Dresden
Maps
The map collection of the SLUB Dresden is one of the oldest and most important of its kind in Germany. A large part of the holdings has already been digitized and can be accessed worldwide via our map forums.
In our map collection you will find valuable historical maps from the 16th century onwards as well as current maps of Saxony and topographical maps of Germany and Europe. In addition, there are numerous views of places from the 17th to the 19th century. In recent years we have been able to expand our holdings by almost 10,000 individual sheets. It currently comprises around 185,000 maps and views.
Virtual exploration of historical landscapes
Our map forums offer you online access to a large part of our map collection.
Map forum
About 32,000 of the most important cartographic sources of the map collection - especially on the history and regional studies of Saxony - are available to you in high-resolution digitalised form in the Map Forum.
Virtual Map Forum
In the Virtual Map Forum, more than 9,000 georeferenced maps are presented in 3D view. Georeferencing - i.e. the placement of maps in a geospatial coordinate system - allows you to superimpose older maps on top of a current map with pinpoint accuracy and a few mouse clicks. The diverse functions of the Virtual Map Forum open up numerous application possibilities. For example, you can use historical comparative maps to narrow down the time of first development for the location of a present-day plot of land in Dresden. You can also find out, for example, whether a particular house was affected by the flood of the century in 1845 or by the bombings in 1945. Geological maps can be used to view lignite and mineral deposits. And the equidistant and ordnance survey maps can be used to trace which villages fell victim to open-cast mining and which new settlements were built.
Support wanted! We are looking forward to your help in georeferencing further maps and in specifying already georeferenced maps! All information can be found on the help page under the keyword georeferencing.
Weitere Recherchetipps für Kartenkunde im Internet
Regional maps
Digital atlases, maps and views
- National Atlas of the Federal Republic of Germany online
- GeoGREIF (University of Greifswald)
- Austria's portal to art, culture and education(views from the Albertina mainly of Saxony by Goebel, Günther Hammer, Veith and Zingg
- Virtual Museum of Prints and Drawings
- GeoPortOst -maps of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
- Mapire -European Land Surveys of the 19th Century
- Herder Institute for Historical Research on Eastern Central Europe Marburg:
- Image catalogue (including, for example, views of Silesia from the Haselbach Collection)
- Map research
- Tourist map, satellite image, historical map of the Czech Republic
- Laboratory for Geoinformatics UJEP - maps of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia from 1716 to 1935, scale 1:25 000, 1:28 800, 1:75 000 and 1:132 000
- Prussian National Map in the Polish National Library
- Mapy archiwalne Polski i Europy Środkowej - Maps of Poland, inter alia, Ordnance Survey Sheets, Map of the German Empire
- Skorowidz map - Ordnance survey maps of Silesia
- Digital collections of the USB Cologne - European cities and landscapes
- Maps of the Rhine Region - Collection Prof. Fritz Hellwig
- swisstopo Time Travel
- Maps of Scotland - National Library of Scotland
- Map Collection Moll
- Maps National Library of Australia
- David Rumsey Historical Map Collection - Maps of all continents with emphasis on America
- War Archives Sweden - Statens arkiv
- Old Maps Online - Historical city plans and maps from all over the world
How to use our offer
Research online
You can search the entire holdings of the map collection in the SLUB catalogue. Simply filter your search by map - then you will also see whether the respective map exists in digitised form. Or you can browse directly in the map forum.
In the Virtual Map Forum, some of the digitised maps are available in georeferenced form. On the help page of the Virtual Map Forum we have compiled all the information you need to use the service step by step. In this video you can also follow the georeferencing of an old map in the Virtual Map Forum using an example.
Do you have a map that you would like to have digitised? Please feel free to send us a digitisation request.
Use in the SLUB
You can view the original maps from the SLUB catalogue in the Collections ReadingRoom and in the Map Reading Room by appointment.
Feel free to contact us! Simply book an individual consultation via the knowledge bar. Contact Dominik Stoltz Tel.: +49 351 4677-530 E-mail: dominik.stoltz@slub-dresden.de